Thursday, 18 October 2012

CBR: 'High Society Digital' Review

...Comic book history is littered with
series that have fallen before their time... Almost all of these
series have some element of fanbase still out there, and still active;
could the creators - or whoever controls the rights - for these titles
and characters bring them back digitally, and in the process, either
complete unfinished stories or release unseen material from that period
to offer added value to that which did appear the first time around?

The current Cerebus: High Society digital release is an
example of that second idea, of course; not only does the digital
release offer the complete content of the print issue, but it has all
manner of background material from invoices to sketches from the era,
making the digital issue a must-read for even the most ardent of Cerebus
fan. It's the DVD extra idea, transferred to comics, but it's the kind
of idea that makes me wonder whether or not it could bring a second life
to all manner of books that had disappeared long before their time...